Kiyoshi Kurosawa: "I recently rewatched "A Brighter Summer Day" when it had a revival screening, and I was struck by how blatantly influenced I am, to the point of being almost disgusting." https://t.co/i5QtR60h4a
You can’t talk about the best World Cup assists in history without mentioning Kwadwo Asamoah’s outside-foot cross to Gyan against Portugal, pure class and vision on the biggest stage.
There’s a world where we get 9 points that year. 7 minimum. Everything was setup perfectly in terms of the experience and youth mix in the team.
Then, the money thing happened.
Liverpool want to be an aggressive, front-foot team led by someone who is all in, whose identity is intensity, who will immerse himself in the club through to the academy, and whose hard-working character will endear him to the city. That’s Andoni Iraola.
Yes, there are risks. There usually always are bar very rare circumstances. Jürgen Klopp thought he was a risk because he had never worked outside of Germany.
Looking at win percentages as a mark of appointing a new head coach/manager is nonsense. Klopp would have never been approached by Bayern Munich or joined Borussia Dortmund in that case.
Luis Enrique would have never gone from Celta to Barcelona.
It’s about what they’ve achieved relative to means, scaling that, plus their stylistic fit to the club and its ambitions.
Agnès Varda on the mystery of 'La Pointe Courte' (1955):
"There’s a mystery to 'La Pointe Courte' (1955) that I’ve never been able explain: whatever drove me to make a film? I knew nothing about the cinema, first of all because I never went to the movies; by the age of twenty I’d only seen a maximum of about twenty films. Nor did I live among people who were in any way involved in film.
I really believe that I undertook La Pointe Courte the way you write your first novel, not caring whether it will be published or not. Of course I was an avid reader at that time so you can discern the imprint of literature in my film: the film was directly inspired by Faulkner’s 'Wild Palms'. Not in its story line but in the way it’s constructed: you know, the way it alternates between the story of the couple and the rising waters of the Mississippi.
I loved this feeling of suspension, somewhat annoying as you’re reading but which feels quite extraordinary in retrospect. In France it was a time when we were beginning to talk a lot about Brecht’s theory of distanciation. I hadn’t yet read any theoretical writings on this but I was fascinated by this attempt to interfere with the spectator’s identification with the film’s characters."
(Agnès Varda's interview with Jean-Andre Fieschi & Claude Ollier, 1965)
P.S: Remembering the great Agnès Varda on her 98th birthday!
Sad to see such revisionism with Ibou Konate from some fans. Came as a kid who from a diff league and fully integrated himself into the LFC way of operating. Under the guidance of Matip and Vvd became one of the best channel and one on one cbs around. Didnt have a great last season but plenty of others didn’t either. Lost a mate and lost a father. Now we say good bye Ibou ..you’ll never walk alone 🙏🏽❤️
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They have quality in attack, it’s just that those attackers are used as auxiliary defenders because Arteta doesn’t trust the “best CB pairing in the world”, the other 2 CBs he has babysitting them at fullback, or the 2 DMs he has babysitting his 4 CBs.